Council clarify if Kildare-Newbridge MD has an expert representative on the Local Enterprise Office, Evaluation and Approvals Committee

My second motion at yesterday’s (19th Dec) MD meeting, ‘That the council clarify if the Kildare-Newbridge Municipal District has an expert representative on the Local Enterprise Office, Evaluation and Approvals Committee, how members of the committee are recruited and remunerated and if the Kildare-Newbridge Municipal District is not represented, that the council consider that either all municipal districts or no municipal district are represented on the committee.

Report: The Evaluation and Approvals Committee provides an impartial assessment of the requests for grant funding. Members serve in an unpaid capacity and were appointed following a public call for suitable members to serve on the committee.

The Role of the Committee

The membership of the Evaluation and Approvals committee brings together a wealth of experience across a diversity of areas of business expertise.

All projects being considered for financial support will be evaluated by the Evaluation and Approvals Committee and all projects under €50,000 may be approved by this committee in line with national enterprise policy. All projects over €50,000 will be evaluated and if endorsed by the Evaluations and Approvals Committee, recommended to the Enterprise Ireland Jobs Expansion Fund Committee for final approval.

The current membership is a follows

Peter Carey, Chief Executive, Kildare County Council

Charles Carri, John P Greely & Co.

James Cox, ex-BOI

Deirdre O’Neill, Enterprise Ireland

Declan Duke, IPC Consulting

Liam Doyle, AIB

Clodagh Huges, Bank of Ireland

Joe Moore, Maynooth University